decuplet
decuplet · decuplets
Zehnling
A group of ten, particularlyA group of ten, particularly: A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
Meaning
3 sensesA group of ten, particularly
A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
One of a group of ten, particularly one of ten babies born to the same mother at one time.
Zehnling
Translations
2 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
one of ten babies born at the same birth:
Origin
From decuple (“multiply by ten”) + -et (“forming diminutives”).From decuple (“multiply by ten”) + -et (“forming diminutives”).
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Forms
plural: decupletsSynonyms
1 synonymsdecaplet
Word family
6 related wordsDerivedantidecuplet